An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous. -Kevin Kelly Intelligence
The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system. -Kevin Kelly Nature
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness. -Kevin Kelly Society
The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it. -Kevin Kelly Computers
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially. -Kevin Kelly Change
But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions. -Kevin Kelly History
An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment. -Kevin Kelly Relationship